This Week from The Rumpus
  • Results for the inaugural Rumpus Prize are now live on the Rumpus website!
  • Celebrate fools' day in some new Fiction by Preeti Vangani
  • Let the water buffalos bring you to tears in a new Essay by Hannah Keziah C. Agustin
  • Get in tune with your taste bugs in Sharleigh Crittenden's and Helena Pantsis's new Comic
  • Get your library card while they're still legal in Sara Masciola's newest Funny Women
  • Observe humankind in Dan Tovrov's new Close Reads
  • Meet us online for Claire Jia's Show Us Your Desk
  • New Letters in the Mail (from authors!) from Jemimah Wei
  • New Interview with Maria Reva and Allison Wyss
  • New Review from J Brooke of Jackie Domenus's No Offense
The Inaugural Rumpus Prize Winners

We are pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural Rumpus Prize!

Over the next two weeks, we will publish the first-prize and honorable mention winners in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

The winners were chosen by judges Kaveh Akbar, Megan Stielstra, and Rachel Khong from more than 2,000 submissions. Head to our website to see the results as well as all the incredible forthcoming work from these first-prize and honorable mention winners!

Interviews & Reviews
 

“A lot of writers now are grappling with how to write fiction in such a rapidly changing world.”

Allison Wyss interviews Maria Reva about her first novel Endling 

“Choosing to revisit former unrealized versions of oneself again and again for the sake of telling a more complete story can only be classified as brave.”

J Brooke reviews Jackie Domenus’s No Offense
Letters in the Mail (from authors!)
Letters in the Mail from authors is a Rumpus subscription in which you receive an actual, postmarked letter from one of our favorite writers in your IRL mailbox twice a month. All letters are non-promotional, include a creative prompt, and have a return mailing address in case you'd like to write the author back!
 
Up next, an author letter from...

June 15: Jemimah Wei
was born and raised in Singapore and is now based between Singapore and the United States. She is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 Honoree, William Van Dyke Short Story Prize winner, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and Felipe P. De Alba Fellow at Columbia University. Her fiction has appeared in Joyland, Guernica, Narrative, amongst others. The Original Daughter is her first novel. Say hi at @jemmawei on socials, or jemmawei.com.
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New Essays & Columns


“On the tenth fools’ day, Ma became a mother to sixty more children.”

Rumpus Original Fiction: "Second of April" by Preeti Vangani

“I am reminded of it in your animal presence, how I can return home to never arrive.”

Rumpus Original Essay: "At Disney, I Cry Over the Water Buffalos" by Hannah Keziah C. Agustin

“Her query breaks through the hefty veil of exhaustion / that insignia of early motherhood”

Rumpus Original Comic: "Where Flowers Grow" by Sharleigh Crittenden and Helena Pantsis

“The 'Diverse Discussions' book club will be renamed 'Not Woke Folk (Tales).'”

Rumpus Original Column Funny Women: "A Notice for Library Patrons" by Sara Masciola

“An alien observes the little H-shaped space station orbiting an increasingly dilapidated earth and wonders, What are these humans up to?

Rumpus Original Column Close Reads: "Each Of Us A Pale Blue Dot" by Dan Tovrov

Show Us Your Desk with Claire Jia


Join us Tuesday, June 10 at 6 pm ET / 3 pm PT on Instagram LIVE for the latest Show Us Your Desk! Greg Mania's next desk belongs to Claire Jia, author of Wanting.

We'll see you there!

Calls for Submissions

We are open for Prose and Poetry Book Reviews submissions year-round.

(Reminder, annual Rumpus Members can submit their work in any genre all year long.)

Reader Support Keeps The Rumpus Going!

Founded in 2009 in San Francisco, CA with readers and editors all over the US and abroad, The Rumpusis one of the longest-running independent online literary and culture magazines. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. We lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers readers already know and love. Often, we are an emerging writer's first notable publication, which is something we’re really proud of. We believe that literature builds community—and if reading The Rumpus makes you feel more connected, please show your support! Our Membership and subscription programs help keep us going and brings us closer to sustainability.
 
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